Those around him noticed that Ruan Chen's face gradually turned pale, and beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead.
However, there was no fluctuation in any room, and each intelligent core remained silent and dormant, with none of them actively responding to Ruan Chen's signal.
Duan Jingfu's voice echoed in her mind, "Relax, Ruan Chen, don't rush."
As time ticked by, the anticipation and excitement in everyone's eyes turned into unbelievable disappointment.
Normally, as long as your mental strength level reaches level eight or above, these intelligence cores will give you some kind of response. As for whether you can become a pilot for one of them, that depends on the degree of integration and your personal ability.
There has never been a situation where all the intelligent cores failed to respond.
Moreover, Ruan Chen is an extremely rare case of being completely untouched.
Ruan Chen's body trembled. She had already exerted all her strength. At this moment, in her mental field of vision, every blade of grass and every tree within a radius of fifteen kilometers, every subtle movement of every person, and every whispered word—all these complex pieces of information were frantically drilling into her mind, making her mental network almost unable to bear it.
But the six intelligence cores remained silent, appearing as a hazy gray in her mental vision.
"Ruan Chen, that's enough!"
Seeing blood flowing from her nose and the veins on her pale face clearly visible, Duan Jingfu whispered, stopping Ruan Chen from expanding his mental power range once again.
Ruan Chen suddenly opened her eyes, which were bloodshot, and she looked somewhat bewildered.
She didn't understand. She had already demonstrated her strength to these intelligent cores, and she could even feel that only she could bring out their full potential. So why were they unwilling to respond to her?
The professors didn't understand either.
Ruan Chen's mental energy range and intensity just now demonstrated her undeniable strength as a fully purified being. The vastness of her mental energy was something these people had never seen before, and the pressure she unconsciously displayed made these people instinctively want to retreat.
When Ruan Chen forcefully suppressed Chi Xiao, several professors who were observing subconsciously restrained their mental power, but they were still affected by the aftershocks, which shows how strong Ruan Chen was.
But why didn't any of the Ten Divine Swords respond to her?
Besides this question, the professors had another concern they couldn't voice to Ruan Chen: Could a genius who couldn't connect with the Ten Divine Swords still be considered a genius? If Ruan Chen could only master ordinary weapons, was she still worth the resources China was pouring into her training?
Even... is it necessary for her to join Beijing University of Technology?
“Professors,” Fu Jianzhi, who had been acting as the mascot, spoke up, “how about we let Ruan Chen try it here alone? Or I can stay here with her. I think she might be under too much pressure. Just now, I felt that Ruan Chen seemed a bit too eager to succeed, and perhaps this attitude made them a little unhappy? After all, their tempers are quite unpredictable.”
Fu Jianzhi's words were reasonable and well-founded. After thinking for a moment, the professors said, "Jianzhi, you stay here with Ruan Chen. We'll go back to the teaching and research office and wait."
"Okay." Fu Jianzhi bowed slightly, indicating that he understood.
Actually, none of the professors had high hopes; they wanted to go back and discuss the follow-up arrangements for Ruan Chen.
The so-called "sensing" is actually a two-way selection process between the benevolent and the intelligent core. Generally speaking, as long as the strength is sufficient, the intelligent core will actively cooperate and be willing to establish a connection.
Ruan Chen's strength is beyond doubt, so it is the intelligence core that is resisting her.
If Ruan Chen really can't become a pilot for one of the Ten Great Swords, then she'll just be an ordinary, excellent student—still excellent, but not the rare, one-of-a-kind kind.
Her training program will inevitably need to be adjusted, and even her mentor will be changed. Duan Jingfu has no need to personally mentor this kind of student.
After the group walked away, Fu Jianzhi walked to Ruan Chen's side and asked, "Ruan Chen, shall we try again?"
Ruan Chen's voice was a little dry, "No need, they don't want to respond to me, I can feel it."
"Giving up so easily isn't like you," Fu Jianzhi said casually. "Try again."
Ruan Chen closed her eyes and released her spiritual power again. This time, her goal was clear: she went straight for Chi Xiao.
When Chixiao refused to respond to her just now, a strange anger rose in her heart. In her mind, it didn't matter if the other intelligence cores rejected her, but she seemed unable to accept the indifference from Chixiao—as if Chixiao was her possession.
"Sorry." This time, Chi Xiao responded immediately, still in her extremely aloof and mature voice, "I wasn't available just now."
Ruan Chen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't question him, but remained calm and composed. "Aren't you worried about those professors?"
“They are everywhere,” Chi Xiao said emotionlessly. “I don’t know how many of these professors are serving them this time, so I don’t think our relationship is suitable to be made public so hastily.”
"Last time?" Ruan Chen immediately understood. "You mean something that happened on another timeline in your mental world?"
"Yes."
Ruan Chen's mental network rippled slightly, brought about by emotional fluctuations—this was the first time she had heard a definite answer from another source: that timeline did indeed exist, and those absurd dreams, hallucinations, Fu Jianzhi who picked her up, the time-distorted basement of the little white building... all existed.
After Chi Xiao and Ruan Chen connected, they shared their spiritual world. Chi Xiao could see everything Ruan Chen was thinking at that moment.
Chi Xiao repeated, “They all exist, but normally you should only see all of this after you come to Jinghua University of Technology. That’s why I said ‘it’s not the right time’ when you were ambushed here last time and we became connected.”
"Why can I only see this after I come to Beijing University of Technology? Is it because in another timeline, I also came to Beijing University of Technology, and that's when we first met?"
"Yes. Although the two timelines are completely different, the occurrence and causes of the events remain the same. In the other timeline, you chose me after you came here. In this timeline, our first meeting should only have been after you came here—that's the causality of time. But now it seems that the causality in this timeline has been completely messed up."
Ruan Chen wasn't too concerned about the connection between cause and effect. She asked Chi Xiao the question that had been lingering in her mind for years, "Two completely different timelines should, in theory, be parallel. Why am I being interfered with by the other timeline now? Am I the same soul as the me on the other timeline?"
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